This theatre should have an aka Majestic Theatre. The Majestic Theater Grand Opening: Thurs Oct 13,1910, renamed to the Electric Theater, Grand Opening: Thurs September 23,1915 showing silent movies. The Grand Opening show was Wilton Lackaye and Clara Kimball Young in “TRILBY”. Admission was 10 cents Last date open was Saturday, October 28, 1961
The building was demolished in 1977 The last movies shown: Susan Travers in “The Snake Woman” and
Kieron Moore in “Doctor Blood’s Coffin”.

I came across two items in the July 17, 1915, issue of The American Contractor. Both mention the Electric Theatre in St. Joseph, but they describe two different projects. One is a theater remodeling and the other a theater addition. The first is in the block the Electric Theatre was on, but the second item gives no location. I really don’t know what to make of them. I’ve had the impression that the Electric Theatre was newly built in 1915, but perhaps it was in a remodeled building. Here is the first item:

The photos on the page ken mc linked to above (and most prticularly this photo) show that the architectural style of the Electric Theatre was Italian Renaissance, at least on the exterior. I haven’t been able to find any interior photos, but that facade usd many elements suggestive of Brunelleschi’s Ospedale degli Innocenti in Florence.

If I remember the Electric was still open up to 1959, my uncle worked at the Electric, Missouri and I think the Regal he ran the heat and air cond. I was always at the movies in one or the other theaters, I know it was still open in 1957 I was going to CB High School and it was still open. When I left St.Joe and returned to Calif. in 1959 it was still open. The last time I was in St.Joe the Missouri was open and being used for stage plays.